Hinge



Y to receive a pintle in` the form of a bolt 7 Q leaves having transverse fastener receiving Patented Nov. 1o, 1931 1,830,885..

UNITED srArEs PATENroFFIcE ROY N. PURDY, OF SAN ANTONIO,.TEXAS HINGE Application filed October 15, 1929. Serial No. 399,763.

This invention relates to a hingel designed The head 8 of the bolt bears against a resilprimarily for use in connection with doors, ient split washer 9 mounted on one of the one of the objects being to provide a hinge knuckles 6 while the other end of thebolt, so constructed as to prevent a door from which is screw-threaded as shown at 10, is

.fswinging freely and to insure its remaining, adapted to be engaged by a nut 11 bearing under ordinary conditions, at any point to against aresilient split washer 12 engaging which it might be moved.` the adjacent knuckle 6.

Another object is to provide a hinge which When the knuckles are in contact asl shown can be applied in the same manner as an orin Figures 1 and 2, the leaves 5 are slightly 1u dinary hinge, no special mortising being respaced from the leaf 4. Leaves l and 4t have c.; quire openings 13 for the reception of Vfastening A further object is toprovide a hinge that screws or the like. The leaves 5 have short is adjustable to vary the friction produced slots 14 therein for the reception of fastenbythe several parts.' ing screws or the like whereby these leaves .s Vith the Vforegoing and other objects in can be adjusted toward or from the leaf 4C. 60'

view which will appear as the description It is to be understood that the leaf 1 is to proceeds, the invention resides in the combibe-attached to a door while the leaves i and nation and arrangement of parts and in the 5 are to be attached to a door frame although details of construction hereinafter described this arrangement may be reversed, if desired. 2U and claimed, it being understood that By means of the nut 11 the bolt 7 can be ad- 65 changes in the precise embodiment of the justed to place the washers 9 and 12 under v invention herein disclosed maybe made withcompression so that they will cause the in the scope of what is claimed without deknuckles G to bind tightly against the parting from the spirit of the invention. knuckles 2. Thus the swinging movement ferred form of the invention has been shown. be retarded and a door provided with hinges In said drawings, such as described, will not swing freely but Figure 1 is an elevation of the hinge. will, under ordinary conditions, remain in Figure 2 isa section on line 2-2, Figure 1, any position to which it might be swung. 3l the combined bolt and pintle being shown in It will be understood that this hinge can 7 5 elevation. be applied as readily as any ordinary hinge Referring to the figures by characters of butiis advantageous compared therewith bereference, 1 designates one of the leaves of cause it retards the swinging of a door and the hinge, the same being provided with therefore prevents slamming or free back and :55) knuckles 2 spaced from each other and inforth swinging.

wardly from the ends of the leaf. The space While the hinge is especially designed for between the knuckles 2 is adapted to receive use in connection `with doors, it can also be a knuckle 3 extending from a leaf il. This used for connecting lids to desks, boxesl andv leaf 4 is shorter than the leaf 1 so that smaller other containers.

thereof, each of the smaller leaves having a A hinge including anintermediate and end knuckle 6 adapted to bear against the outer leaves disposed in the same plane and spacedl end of the adjacent knuckle 2. All of the apart, knuckles extending from said leaves knuckles aline as ordinarily and are adapted` and disposed in alignment, 'the' end hinge In the accompanying drawings the preof the leaf 1 relative to the leaves 4 and 5 will 7o i' leaves 5 can be arranged adjacent the ends What is claimed is: 85 f slots, a single leaf having knuckles interposed between and aligning with the knuckles of the first mentioned leaves, a pintle extending through all of the knuckles, and an adjustable resilient means on the end portions of the pintle for exerting a constant thrust against the outel ends of the knuckles of the end leaves to bind said knuckles upon the adjacent knuckles of said single leaf.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature.

ROY N; PURDY. 

